Beckman Coulter, Inc., and IRIS Diagnostics announce the launch of the Alifax automated Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) analysis system through a distribution agreement with Alifax. <\/p>\n
The automated ESR analysis systems are designed to fit all workloads, including small hospitals, large reference laboratories, core laboratories and satellite locations. The automated ESR system delivers increased productivity, efficiencies in laboratory labour utilization and reduced turnaround times (TAT), along with improved patient outcomes and physician satisfaction. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis patented technology is a breakthrough in turnaround time \u2013 generating subsequent results every 35 seconds or less, versus one hour for standard ESR analysis by the reference Westergren method,\u201d said John Blackwood, senior vice president, Product Management, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics. \u201cThe small sample volume and STAT capability are expected to reduce ER waiting times and significantly minimize the need for patient specimen redraws.\u201d <\/p>\n
Employing patented technology, the Alifax ESR system provides fully automated, hands-off operation in a small footprint and processes the same whole blood tubes from the hematology analyser. <\/p>\n
ESR is a common blood test, and is a non-specific measure of inflammation. Standard ESR analysis is a measure of red cells settling over time, typically one hour, and variations occur in the results, depending on the degree of specimen viscosity and presence of inflammatory proteins. Alifax\u2019s technology measures the kinetics of red blood cell aggregation by capillary photometry and reads aggregation over a ten second period. <\/p>\nwww.beckmancoulter.com<\/link>www.alifax.com<\/link>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beckman Coulter, Inc., and IRIS Diagnostics announce the launch of the Alifax automated Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) analysis system through a distribution agreement with Alifax. The automated ESR analysis systems are designed to fit all workloads, including small hospitals, large reference laboratories, core laboratories and satellite locations. The automated ESR system delivers increased productivity, efficiencies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}